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English
Etymology
(explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym
Pronunciation
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Usage notes
(explosion):
This is also formulated in slightly altered forms, as Rapid Unscheduled/Unexpected/Unplanned/Uncontrolled (self-)Dissassembly, with the "U" varying between forms, and "self" occurring in some variants.
Noun
RUD (plural RUDs)
- (acronym, initialism): (engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup
2015 January 16, Alex Hern, “This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like”, in The Guardian:Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up.
2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN:“Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.
Verb
- (acronym): RUD (third-person singular simple present RUDs, present participle RUDding, simple past and past participle RUDded)
- (initialism): RUD (third-person singular simple present RUDs, present participle RUDing, simple past and past participle RUDed)
- (engineering, euphemistic) To produce a RUD (rapid unplanned disassembly)
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